Sswor:
I think this culture of–every horse can be saved–is doing a massive disservice to horses in general. They can’t all be saved and there are millions that are unwanted. All this time and resources wasted on difficult, dangerous, common/random bred horses, when there are a million gathering dust and flies that could be put into service and be useful is ridiculous. You know there are at any given time, 60K mustangs standing in holding facilities all across this country doing nothing but eating tax payer money every day, and languishing, that could be put into service. And 10’s of thousands of domestics doing nothing as well. They are large livestock animals. It costs a tremendous amount of time and money to own a horse. It’s the same investment to own a good one as it is to own a problem one. There are fates worse then death, and many fates worse then humane euthanasia. Training is stressful and subjecting a horse like described to constant training by a rotating group of trainers is not kind. Let the horse be at peace and move on.
I seldom agree with Sswor but this is one time that I do. Life’s too short to own bad ones, and bad ones can make it even shorter. Please be kind and euthanize. If you have a necropsy done, I’m sure many here would be interested to know the findings.
